[ti:Hidden Shame]
[ar:Elvis Costello]
[al:Secret, Profane And Sugarcane]

[00:00.00]Elvis Costello - Hidden Shame
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[00:05.30]I'm sorry to say that you don't know me
[00:09.44]In many ways you never understood
[00:13.67]Each time I tried to tell the ugly truth
[00:17.58]You always let it pass you by
[00:19.77]You said I'd never tell you a lie
[00:21.92]Just because I could
[00:24.77]Did you really think I was a bad man?
[00:28.94]You always said that "bad" should be my middle name
[00:32.83]But you don't know the half of it
[00:35.13]You don't know how that name fits
[00:38.71]You don't know my hidden shame
[03:27.12][02:45.17][01:41.16][00:42.46]Hidden shame, shame, shame
[03:28.85][02:46.84][01:43.28][00:44.55]That I can't get free
[03:30.97][02:49.15][01:45.62][00:46.48]From the blame and the torture and the misery
[03:35.07][02:53.03][01:49.57][00:50.83]Must it be my secret for eternity?
[03:39.26][02:57.20][01:53.74][00:54.91]Till you know my hidden shame you really don't know me
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[01:04.94]Well, there's a different kind of prison
[01:09.09]And it don't even have to look much like a cell
[01:13.51]It's already on your mind
[01:15.30]Boy, we can see it in your eyes
[01:17.52]So, here's the bars and walls as well
[01:21.47]Well, you know I'm never coming home, dear
[01:25.69]You said you'd stand by me until I cleared my name
[01:29.92]Sure it's easy to be strong
[01:32.13]When you know the charge is wrong
[01:34.28]But the days and weeks get long
[01:37.76]When you've got a hidden shame
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[02:08.91]I had a friend when I was just a boy
[02:12.98]We were like brothers
[02:14.07]We would run and hide
[02:17.33]And we went walking on a high hillside
[02:21.31]And I really don't how it happened
[02:25.45]He turned to me and had this strange look in his eye
[02:29.68]And not a single word was spoken
[02:33.64]I must have pushed him, but I don't remember why
[02:37.65]And all at once, he lay there broken
[02:41.38]And I walked down without him and I buried it deep inside
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[03:07.15]They say you always hurt the one you love
[03:11.26]And I'm not saying if I did or if I didn't
[03:15.73]But like my shame, that kind of love is always hidden
[03:19.74]They locked me up here for the ideas in my head
[03:23.73]They never got me for the thing I really did
[03:45.39][03:43.46][03:43.22]you really don't know me
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